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Académie Nationale De Médecine
Situated at 16 Rue Bonaparte in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, the Académie nationale de médecine (National Academy of Medicine) was created in 1820 by King Louis XVIII at the urging of baron Antoine Portal. At its inception, the institution was known as the Académie royale de médecine (or ''Royal Academy of Medicine''). This academy was endowed with the legal status of two institutions which preceded it—the Académie royale de chirurgie (or ''Royal Academy of Surgery''), which was created in 1731 and of the Société royale de médecine (or ''Royal Society of Medicine''), which was created in 1776. Background Academy members initially convened at the ''Paris Faculty of Medicine (or Faculté de Médecine de Paris)''. Four years later, the academy acquired its own headquarters, in the form of a mansion in the rue where it was located until 1850. The office was then relocated to a vaulted hall of the Hospital of Charity on rue Saint Pierre. Their current facility o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MH Paris 16 Rue Bonaparte
MH or mH may refer to: Businesses and organizations * Malaysia Airlines, by IATA airline designator * Menntaskólinn við Hamrahlíð, a Gymnasium (school), gymnasium in Reykjavík, Iceland * Miami Heat, an NBA basketball team Places * Mahalle, (abbreviated mh. on maps) a Turkish residential district * Maharashtra, a state of western India (ISO 3166-2 code MH) * Marshall Islands (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code and postal symbol MH) * County Meath, Ireland (code MH) * Montserrat (FIPS PUB 10-4 territory code MH) * Morgan Hill, California People Politics * Mohammad Hatta, 1st Vice President of Indonesia, 3rd Prime Minister of Indonesia, 4th Minister of Defense of Indonesia and 4th Foreign Minister of Indonesia Musicians * Michael Hutchence, frontman and lead singer of Australian rock band INXS Technologists * Michael Hood, internet researcher Science and technology * .mh, the Internet country code top-level domain for Marshall Islands * Malignant hyperthermia, in medicine *Mas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
François-Joseph Double
François-Joseph Double (1776–1842) was a French physician and co-founder of the Académie Nationale de Médecine.Domenico Gabrielli, ''Dictionnaire historique du cimetière du Père-Lachaise XVIIIe et XIXe siècles'', Paris, éd. de l'Amateur, 2002, 334 p.Olivier Walusinski (ed.), ''Mystery of Yawning in Physiology and Disease'', Karger Publishers, 2010, p. 1/ref> Biography Early life He was born on 11 March 1776 in Verdun-sur-Garonne, Tarn-et-Garonne, France. His family, the Double family, had been ennobled in 1378. His grandfather and father were both Apothecaries. He studied in Montpellier, where he was taught in Latin. He moved to Paris in 1803. Career He started his career as an apothecary in Paris. He served as a physician in the French-Spanish War of 1793. As a physician, he developed the accurate observation of the clinical signs of illness, and studied the unaided auscultation of respiratory and cardiac ailments. He also described tubal breathing and pulmonary rales ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antoine Germain Labarraque
Antoine Germain Labarraque (28 March 1777 – 9 December 1850)Maurice Bouvet. Les grands pharmaciens: Labarraque (1777-1850)' (Revue d'histoire de la pharmacie, 1950, Volume 38, no. 128, pp. 97-107). was a French chemist and pharmacist, notable for formulating and finding important uses for "''Eau de Labarraque''" or "''Labarraque's solution''", a solution of sodium hypochlorite widely used as a disinfectant and deodoriser.Labarraque, Antoine-Germain '' Nouvelle biographie générale'', volume 28 (1859), columns 323-324. Labarraque's use of |
Antoine Joseph Jobert De Lamballe
Antoine Joseph Jobert de Lamballe (17 December 1799 – 19 April 1867) was a French surgeon. He was born at Matignon, studied medicine at Paris, and in 1830 became surgeon at the Hôpital Saint-Louis. He was elected to the Academy of Medicine in 1840 and to the Academy of Sciences in 1856. Jobert was a brilliant and resourceful operator, best known for his masterly use of ''autoplastie'', the repair of diseased parts by healthy neighboring tissue, and especially for the operation which he styled ''élitroplastie'', an autoplastic cure of vaginal fistula. He wrote: * ''Traité théorique et pratique des maladies chirurgicales du canal intestinal'' (1829) * ''Etudes sur le système nerveux'' (1838) * ''Traité de chirurgie plastique'' (1849) * ''De la réunion en chirurgie'' (1864) Terms * Jobert's fossa – the fossa in the popliteal region bounded above by the adductor magnus and below by the gracilis and sartorius; best seen when the knee is bent and the thigh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jérôme Lejeune
Jérôme Jean Louis Marie Lejeune (; 13 June 1926 – 3 April 1994) was a French pediatrician and geneticist. He is best known for his work on the links between chromosome abnormalities and diseases like Down Syndrome ( trisomy-21) and cri du chat syndrome. He is also known for his subsequent strong opposition to the use of amniocentesis prenatal testing for eugenic purposes through selective and elective abortion. He is venerated in the Catholic Church, having been declared Venerable by Pope Francis on 21 January 2021. Career Trisomy 21 In 1958, while working in Raymond Turpin’s laboratory with Marthe Gautier, Jérôme Lejeune reported that he had discovered that Down syndrome was caused by an extra copy of chromosome 21. According to Lejeune's laboratory notebooks, he made the observation demonstrating the link on 22 May 1958. The discovery was published by the French Academy of Sciences with Lejeune as first author, Gautier as second author, and Turpin as senior author ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi
Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi ( Putnam; August 31, 1842 – June 10, 1906) was an English-American physician, teacher, scientist, writer, and suffragist. She was the first woman admitted to study medicine at the University of Paris and the first woman to graduate from a pharmacy college in the United States. Jacobi had a long career practicing medicine, teaching, writing, and advocating for women's rights, especially in medical education. Her scientific rebuttal of the popular idea that menstruation made women unsuited to education was influential in the fight for women's educational opportunities. Jacobi was a founding member of the League for Political Education and the Women's Medical Association of New York City, and was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1993. Early life Jacobi was born Mary Corinna Putnam on August 31, 1842 in London, England. She was the daughter of an American father, George Palmer Putnam and British mother, Victorine Haven Putnam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sigismond Jaccoud
Sigismond Jaccoud (20 November 1830 – 26 April 1913) was a Swiss physician. Sigismond Jaccoud was born in 1830 in Geneva, where he went to school and was educated in music and the science of literature. In 1849 he went to Paris to study medicine – and supported himself in that city teaching music and literature. He became ''interne des hפpitaux'' in 1855. After graduation in 1859 he specialised in internal medicine and in 1860 defended his doctoral thesis, on the pathogenesis of albuminuria. In 1862 he became ''medecin des hopitaux'', in 1863 ''professeur''. In 1877 he was appointed professor of internal pathology at the medical faculty and member of the Académie Nationale de Médecine. In 1898 he became president of the Academy. Jaccoud was a very famous and highly estimated lecturer at several of Paris' hospitals – L'Hôpital Saint-Antoine, l'Hôpital de la Charité, l'Hôpital Lariboisière and l'Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpétrière. Following the death of Ernes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ahmed Taleb Ibrahimi
Ahmed Taleb Ibrahimi (; born 5 January 1932) is an Algerian politician and intellectual. He is the son of Islamic theologian and renowned scholar Bachir Ibrahimi, and served in multiple ministerial roles in Algeria from the 1960s until the late 1980s. A staunch anti-colonialist and proponent of Arab heritage through his writings and his actions, Dr. Ibrahimi was jailed by the French authorities as a militant of the FLN Party. He ran for president in 1999 but withdrew from the race along with all other opposition candidates hours before voting commenced, claiming electoral fraud by the army. In 2004, his proposed candidacy was disqualified because of alleged links with the proscribed Islamic Salvation Front (FIS). His platform includes moderate Islamism and adherence to free-market economics. Dr. Ibrahimi is the father of two sons, and currently resides in the city of Algiers, Algeria with his wife Souad. Early years Ahmed Taleb-Ibrahimi was born on January 5, 1932, in the eas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
François Henri Hallopeau
__NOTOC__ François Henri Hallopeau (17 January 1842, Paris – 20 March 1919, Paris) was a French dermatologist. He studied medicine under Alfred Vulpian and Sigismond Jaccoud. He co-founded and was secretary general of the ''Société Française de dermatologie et de syphiligraphie''. He became a member of the ''Académie de Médecine'' in 1893. He coined the medical term ''trichotillomania'' in 1889. He also coined the word ''antibiotique'' in 1871 to describe a substance opposed to the development of life. Selman Waksman was later credited with coining the word ''antibiotic'' to describe such compounds that were derived from other living organisms, such as penicillin. Terms * Recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa (also known as Hallopeau-Siemens syndrome) * Pemphigus vegetans of Hallopeau Papers * * * * * * See also *Timeline of tuberous sclerosis The history of tuberous sclerosis (TSC) research spans less than 200 years. Tuberous sclerosis, TSC is a rare, multi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Giroud
Paul Giroud (6 June 1898 – 21 January 1989) was a French physician and biologist. Biography Born in Munet ( Moulins), Allier, France he studied and worked at the Institut Pasteur in Paris. Giroud was Head of Laboratory at the Institut Pasteur in Paris from 1930 to 1938. During these years he carried out several missions in Tunisia to research the source of typhus. Meanwhile, he also travelled to the USSR, where he met Vladimir Barykin, who had developed a method of cultivating the agent of typhus for the preparation of a vaccine. In 1940 Giroud together with René Panthier developed a vaccine against typhus. After this discovery Giroud studied the rickettsiosesDurand P et Giroud P. Le lapin inoculé par voie respiratoire avec les rickettsies du typhus historique pouvoir antigène des suspensions. Ann. Inst. Pasteur 1941, 68, n°6, 425-437. in Congo, Rwanda, Kenya and Ethiopia. He also worked on a vaccine against Rocky Mountain spotted fever. In 1956 he was elected membe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albin Haller
Albin Haller (7 March 1849, Fellering – 1 May 1925) was a French chemist.W. J. Pope (1925) ''Nature'', Vol.115(2900), p.843 "Prof. Albin Haller, For. Mem. R.S" (obituary) Haller founded the École Nationale Supérieure des Industries Chimiques in Nancy, France, Nancy and in 1917 won the Davy Medal of the Royal Society "''On the ground of his important researches in the domain of organic chemistry''". Appointed to the French Academy of Sciences in 1900, he served as its president beginning in 1923. He was also a member of the French Académie Nationale de Médecine. Haller was married to a cousin of Henri Poincaré. Haller and Poincaré were close friends. Selected publications *A. Haller (1894) Produits chimiques et pharmaceutiques: materiel de la peinture parfumerie, savonnerie (Imprimerie Nationale) *A. Haller (1895) L'industrie chimique (J.B. Baillière et fils) *A. Haller (1903) Les industries chimiques et pharmaceutiques (Gauthier-Villars) References 1849 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernest Fourneau
Ernest Fourneau (4 October 1872 – 5 August 1949) was a French pharmacist who graduated in 1898 for the Paris university specialist in medicinal chemistry and pharmacology. He played a major role in the discovery of synthetic local anesthetics such as amylocaine, as well as in the synthesis of suramin. He authored more than two hundred scholarly works, and has been described as having "helped to establish the fundamental laws of chemotherapy that have saved so many human lives". Fourneau was a pupil of Friedel and Moureu, and studied in the German laboratories of Ludwig Gattermann in Heidelberg, Hermann Emil Fischer in Berlin and Richard Willstätter in Munich. He headed the research laboratory of Poulenc Frères in Ivry-sur-Seine from 1903 to 1911. One of the products was a synthetic local anesthetic that was named Stovaine ( amylocaine). This was a pun on the English translation of "fourneau" as "stove". (The same pun was used in the brand name of the drug acetarsol, S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
